Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until she surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office after charges of promoting prostitution had been brought against her, Barrows, 32, had allegedly run a 20-girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring, one of the largest known to New York police. In her own way, the blond, slim, plain-faced patrician was as fastidious and thrifty as any of her Puritan ancestors. Recruiting models, actresses, some housewives and students from escort service ads and personal contacts, Barrows conducted grueling interviews. Besides good looks, she insisted upon intelligence and, above all, "eloquence." The chosen few were rated...
...heavyset men now climbing into the ring are veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in his late 30s, a hulking former hairdresser from Amarillo, wearing a white hat and boots stamped with red patches in the shape of the state of Texas...
Back in the dressing room, wrestlers are having a smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from...
...ring, the bouts are drawing to a close. The final match has dissolved into pandemonium as two sets of burly wrestlers pound one another with knee drops, punches and head bashes. The crowd becomes a mob, chanting in unison, waving American flags, demanding more. Suddenly a gong rings. As the hot, white lights above the ring switch off, fans stream outside into blinding sunshine. Inside, the wrestlers pack up and leave for the night matches in Austin...
...politics for drama, for a kill, for a bullfight," Shimon Peres once observed during his long years as Israel's opposition leader. "I'm not sure my temperament or my conscience is made for that." Last week, having finally made it to the center of the ring, Israel's new Prime Minister was working hard to deal with his country's pressing economic and military problems. During a whirlwind trip to Washington, undertaken only three weeks after he became the leader of Israel's government of national unity, Peres visited President Reagan and other Administration...